Champion efforts to increase housing affordability for working families and initiatives that are proven to end homelessness.

Experience

Experience

Profession:San Diego City Councilmember

Councilmember, Third District, San Diego City Council — Elected position (2008–current)

Council President, San Diego City Council — Appointed position (2013–2014)

Interim Mayor, City of San Diego — Appointed position (2013–2014)

Commissioner, San Diego Housing Commission — Appointed position (2005–2008)

Education

University of San Diego — Bachelor's Degree, History and Political Science (current)

Biography

If you care about something, you should leave it better than you found it. That lesson was instilled in Todd Gloria by his parents, and it motivates him to improve the San Diego region every day.

Since San Diegans sent him to City Hall as the San Diego City Councilmember for the Third District in 2008, Todd has made significant progress on the agenda his constituents set for him: he has continued the progress made by his City Council predecessor, Toni Atkins, by increasing affordable housing opportunities; Todd has expanded transportation options through new transit service and safer biking and walking infrastructure; and he helped stabilize the city budget through responsible funding decisions and sensible reforms.

Since 2008, thousands of affordable housing units were added to the City of San Diego. By implementing Todd's proposal in 2014, the city's homelessness services funds are used more effectively and moving more people off the streets and into the help they need. He is credited with paving the way for San Diego's first permanent homeless services center and housing facility, and continues to work with regional leaders to end homelessness as Chair of the Regional Continuum of Care Council.

Todd also understands the transportation challenges throughout San Diego County. As a board member of the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), Todd has helped secure funds to create more transportation options. He has worked to add Bus Rapid Transit throughout the region, invested in infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians, and increased trolley service.

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Political Beliefs

I believe in a hand up not a hand out and keeping businesses and jobs strong in the great state of California.

Position Papers

Official Statement

Researched by Voter’s Edge

Source: San Diego County Registrar of Voters

STATE ASSEMBLY 78th District

KEVIN D. MELTON

Retired

AGE: 53

It is time for California to be great again. For too long, we have sent “representatives” to Sacramento with the belief they will act in the best interest of California and Californians and each of us. Sadly, that has not been the case.

I am running for the California State Assembly because it is time to bring honesty and integrity to Sacramento. It is time to reign-in bloated government spending that does not benefit those it is intended to benefit.

It is time to lower taxes on hard-working Californians so they can invest in their families and their communities. It is time to lower the regulatory and tax burdens on California employers so they can keep jobs here instead of moving them overseas or to other states.

It is time to redirect and rededicate tax money the state collects to the purpose they were established to address.

It is time to dedicate more tax-money to schools and I will concentrate on getting the money into the classrooms and the teachers.

It is time to do more to help our seniors and veterans through efficient and common-sense programs to meet their pressing needs.

If you give me the honor to represent and serve you, I will go to Sacramento to achieve these goals. And to lead by example, I will give $50,000 of salary for use in classrooms in my district.